Epitaxial RE3+:YAG planar waveguide lasers

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-74

  Malinowski, M ^a   Sarnecki, J ^b   Piramidowicz, R ^a   Szczepanski P ^a   Wolinski W ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b ukasiewicz Research Network Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics   (Poland)

Author keywords

LPE; Rare earth ions; Thin films; Waveguide lasers; YAG

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347771981     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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